Imagine many common Indian dishes without tomatoes or chilis. How about the popular trope of a Native American on horseback? Horses went extinct in the US many thousands of years before Europeans arrived with a different kind. It's amazing how quickly the cultural exchange happened so long ago.

That's why if you ask someone in Bologna how much tomato to add to your Bolognese they will chase you out of town with a kitchen knife.

Don't forget onion

Tbf, most of these would kind of suck in a salsa.

any of the green parts of the tomato (even just the small bits inside the fruit) can kill small pets like hamsters or mice

Many parts of the tomato plant are deadly to pets. Same goes for all nightshade members.

Europeans used to think tomatoes were poisonous. They referred to them as poison apples.

A pouch of snus is called a "prilla" in Swedish, and one of my friends named their cat that.

And how majestic that cat looks!
Def the photogenic one in the family.

Its a family photo, they don't need to be blood relatives.

Yeah that one messes me up as well. Who of these birthed the cat? Who of these did the cat birth?

Potatoes have fruits as well - they look like little dark green tomatoes. Toxic of course, because nightshade.

There is more to a plant than just the fruit, you know. It just happens that the species (cultivar?) of nightshade that we grow for potatoes has tasty, starchy roots, while others have tasty, zesty fruits, and then one of them is eggplant.

Get this, they're so closely related that botanists created a plant that grows tomatoes above ground and potatoes below.

Just be glad they didn't turn into crabs or cats.

... what? No, they're all nightshade plants. Not the same plant, mind, but still the same family.